Family Maintenance Services

Provides family maintenance services for BCEA clients who would like help with obtaining or defending a maintenance order or written agreement. Maintenance may include the following: expenses arising from and incidental to the prenatal care of a mother or child, or the birth of a child; the costs of tests for paternity; an amount payable to a corporation with only the debtor as shareholder, or by a debtor who has failed to comply with an order; and interest that is or may be imposed. Clients may choose to enroll their maintenance order with the Family Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP) which monitors and enforces maintenance orders belonging to recipients of assistance; operated by Ministry of Attorney General and listed separately.